When restoring your iPhone (or other iDevice), all the meticulous work you put into your homescreen's organization is lost. Even if you only have a handful of apps, this is frustrating. Fortunately Dan Frakes, over at MacWorld, has discovered a way to solve the problem.

When you restore your iPhone, everything gets wiped clean before your information is put back on the device. Your homescreen organization, folders and all, is actually added back as well. The problem is that your third-party apps are no longer on your phone—because you have yet to sync it—and so it doesn't really matter that your iDevice knows how to organize them. It can't organize what doesn't exist. What Dan discovered is that after you perform this first restore and sync your phone, you can perform a second restore that doesn't wipe your phone. This will restore your homescreen organization back to its former glory. Here's what you do: